Pencarrow (New Zealand electorate)

Pencarrow is a former Parliamentary electorate in the lower Hutt Valley of New Zealand, from 1978 to 1996.

[1] As part of the 1976 census, a large number of people failed to fill out an electoral re-registration card, and census staff had not been given the authority to insist on the card being completed.

Together with a northward shift of New Zealand's population, this resulted in five new electorates having to be created in the upper part of the North Island.

[3] The electorate is based on the southern part of the city of Lower Hutt.

In the 1978 election, the electorate was won by Fraser Colman, who had been MP for Petone since the 1967 by-election.